![]() Waiting for Godot shows for the first time the extensive revisions made by Beckett during revivals of the play. With additional information taken from Becketts own annotated and corrected copies, the editors have been able to constitute a new revised text for each of these major plays. ![]() They present his solutions to practical problems but also provide a unique insight into the ways he envisaged his plays. ![]() The theatrical notebooks of Beckett that are reproduced in facsimile here are translated and annotated and thus offer a remarkable record of his own involvement with the staging of his texts. For most of these productions he meticulously prepared notebooks for his personal use. Finneran Book Synopsis From the mid-1960s, Samuel Beckett himself directed all his major plays in Berlin, Paris, and London. About the Book The Theatrical Notebooks of Samuel Beckett is beyond doubt a major contribution to Beckett scholarship and to the study of drama as a genre.-Richard J. ![]()
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